Book excerpt: Windows Presentation Foundation and special effects

Chapter 6, Special Effects, introduces developers to brushes, bitmap effects, transformations and opacity masks.

• Brushes can apply gradients, images and custom drawings in addition to solid colors.
• Bitmap effects add drop shadows, blurring and other effects to visual elements.
• Transformations can rotate, scale or skew a visual element; animations can be added to transformations as well.
• Opacity masks can make it look as though an element is fading into the background or is translucent.

The chapter concludes with a primer on combining the aforementioned effects.

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Excerpted from the Wrox book, Professional WPF Programming: .NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation (ISBN: 978-0-470-04180-2) by Chris Andrade, Shawn Livermore, Mike Meyers and Scott Van Vliet.
Copyright © 2007. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc., and available at your favorite book seller. Reprinted with permission.

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